The premise of fidelity : science, visuality, and representing the real in nineteenth-century Japan / Maki Fukuoka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fukuoka, Maki, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and science--Japan--History--19th century.

Art and science.

Botanical illustration--Japan--History--19th century.

Botanical illustration.

Plant prints--Japan--History--19th century.

Plant prints.

Photography--Japan--History--19th century.

Photography.

Realism in art--Japan--History--19th century.

Realism in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford Stanford University Press 2012

Summary:

The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth century Japan uncovers the social and epistemological roles of the term shashin within the scientific community before the term came to mean photography.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Note on Names

Introduction

1. The Eye of the Shōhyaku-sha: Between Seeing and Knowing

2. Ways of Conceptualizing the Real: Scripts, Names, and Materia Medica

3. Modes of Observation and the Real: Exhibition Practices of the Shōhyaku-sha

4. Picturing the Real: Questions of Fidelity and Processes of Pictorial Representation

5. Shashin in the Capital: The Last Stage of Metamorphosis

Appendix: Takahashi Yuichi, "Yōgakyoku tekigen" (1865)

Notes

Glossary

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-253) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780804784627

0804784620

OCLC:

804661332